Commissioners Uphold 2015 Denial of 900 MHz Waiver for M2M Communications
FCC commissioners rejected an application for review of a 2015 FCC Wireless Bureau order that denied a request for a waiver by Spectrum Networks Group (SNG) so subsidiary M2M Spectrum Networks could offer a third-party service providing machine-to-machine communications using…
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900 MHz business/industrial/land transportation channels (see 1504130062). SNG’s main argument was the bureau “treated it differently from similarly situated parties and penalized it for being candid about its contemplated operations,” said Monday's order. “Based upon our review of the record and licenses at issue, we … find no basis for SNG’s allegation of differential treatment.” SNG also argued rejection was opposed to the FCC’s broader policy, the agency said: “Whatever the tension between the policy of increasing flexibility for incumbent B/ILT licensees and reserving unused channels for traditional B/ILT operations, the appropriate venue for resolving it is a new Commission rulemaking.”